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Julie Blackbird

Case from Long Island, NY dated Jul 21, 1990

Victim Details

Julie Blackbird

Female

White / Caucasian

Long Island

NY

1990-07

28

Julie

Blackbird

07/09/2026

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Julie Blackbird was a 29-year-old White woman whose life ended in 1990 after she crossed paths with Long Island serial killer Joel Rifkin. Accounts of what happened to her surface not from a recovered body or a crime scene processed in real time, but from what investigators later said Rifkin admitted—an absence that left her story suspended for years in the space between a missing person and a murder no one could yet prove.

According to narratives drawn from Rifkin’s later statements, ...
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  • Julie Blackbird (1961-1990) | Obituary - We Remember
  • Who Were Serial Killer Joel Rifkin's Victims? - Oxygen
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